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Summary: "Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan describes the conditions for urbanization across the Great Lakes region. It assembles a multi-layered, empirical description of urbanization processes within the drainage basins of the five Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River. This thick description encompasses a range of representational forms including maps, plans, diagrams, timelines, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Actar 2017

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 912 THI

Inskeep, Steve.

Summary: Analyzes the growing metropolis of Karachi, Pakistan, including the importance of regional stability to American security interests, the terrorist bombing of a Shia religious procession, and the challenging religious, ethnic, and political divides.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.91 INS

Jackson, John N.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Toronto Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.47 JAC

Hollis, Leo.

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Summary: At the beginning of the century, we became 50% urban as a global population, and by 2050 we're going to be up to 70% urban. Cities could either be our coffin or our ark. Hollis presents evidence that cities can deliver a better life, and investigates how cities all over the world are tackling climate change, population growth, poverty, shifting work patterns and the maintenance of the fragile...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 HOL

Leinberger, Christopher B.

Contents: Introduction -- Futurama and the 20th-century American dream -- The rise of drivable sub-urbia -- The standard real estate product types : why every place looks like every place else -- Consequences of drivable sub-urban growth -- The market rediscovers walkable urbanism -- Defining walkable urbanism : why more is better -- Unintended consequences of walkable urbanism -- Achieving the next...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 LEI

Hakim, Joy.

Summary: A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005

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Sonnie, Amy

Summary: "Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s. Historians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 SON

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